Every now and then, there’s a clear break in the technology industry that indicates the end of an era, and the beginning of a new one. It’s often characterised by things like a particular version of popular software, or a new capability consumers never had before, or a new player in the hardware space. It’s a drastic shift like the release of Windows 95, or Apple’s switch from Power9 to Intel Core that takes us into a new era of computing. Today begins a new era with Windows 10 on ARM and the end of Intel’s grip on the mobile market.

Remember when superhero video game adaptations were common? Every big movie got an adaptation, even awful ones like Fantastic Four and Green Lantern, and each pre-Avengers Marvel film had a tie-in game. With the exception of the Batman Arkham series, most of them were terrible, and that’s probably why developers stopped making them. After reviewing Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2, I kind of wish its developers would stop making them too.

The last time I wrote about Darkest Dungeon, I admitted that it was “my kind of thing”. It’s a hardcore dungeon-crawling RPG that is constantly throwing obstacles and challenges at you, just daring you to press on and survive. It’s not the kind of game you play until you win, it’s a game you play until you lose. Anyway, the next expansion is going even more Lovecraftian, and sees your party investigating a crashed comet in The Color of Madness.

Capcom has issued a stern warning of a “serious bug” affecting Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite save data, related to the update which went live recently. The bug only affects Xbox One users, and only those using disc versions, so digital downloads of the game seem to be in the clear.

I felt like Christmas had come early when the Astrum SM360 arrived for review. I love the sleek, velvet feel of the unit, and the top carry strap was a nice touch.

Equipped with a USB port, a microSD card slot, Bluetooth support, and a built-in FM tuner, the SM360 feels feature rich. The first connection I made was to my phone, which proved to be seamless and within a few seconds I was playing my first track. Seeing as “360” forms part of the name of this speaker, I assumed the SM360 would emit some form of virtual surround sound – but alas, it’s directional. One side of the speaker’s barrel has an 8W 70mm subwoofer, and the other two 2W 30mm tweeters, along with a bass reflex port.

Has anyone else noticed this recent trend of Nintendo Switch release dates being announced within days of the actual release? In Xbox One/PS4/PC land, we salivate over release dates for months, nay, years. Then you read news pieces like this: 2K has revealed a release date for the Nintendo Switch version of WWE 2K18, and it’s… today.

Here’s some good news for everyone depressed that it’s not the weekend and annoyed with all the news about loot boxes; Ubisoft is giving away free games! If you head on over to Uplay site now, or fire up the Uplay app on your PC, you can add World in Conflict Complete Edition to your account free, forever. A 2009 game, World In Conflict is a real-time strategy title with a big, expansive single-player campaign, multiplayer up to 16 players, and literally has the chops to bring high-end PCs to their knees still. This is part of a Christmas-themed giveaway by Ubisoft called “Happy Playdays”, and more games will be given out free in the holidays.

Ubisoft has really done well to position Assassin’s Creed Origins as the game that keeps on giving, and looking at the December schedule, that doesn’t look like it’s going to change any time soon. This month, Bayek’s stabbing adventure will have a new Nightmare difficulty level added, a Horde mode quest, a new Trial of the Gods and, and, and the list, as you’ll see below, goes on and on.

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